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| Introduction | |
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| Document: Introduction | |
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| An Act for the Relief of the Poor, 43 Elizabeth, 1601 | |
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| The Colonial Period: 1647-1776 | |
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| The Poor Laws in the Colonies | |
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| Conquest, Expansion, and Population Growth: Native Americans, Immigration, and Slavery | |
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| Challenge to the Poor | |
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| Veterans: A Special Class | |
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| Documents: The Colonial Period | |
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| An Act of Supplement to the Acts Referring to the Poor, Massachusetts Bay, 1692 | |
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| The Binding of Moses Love, 1747 | |
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| The Pre-Civil War Period 1777-1860 | |
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| Labor and Economic Security | |
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| The Reform Movements | |
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| Institutions, Almshouses, and Paupers | |
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| Child Saving | |
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| Retreat from the Almshouse | |
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| Documents: The Pre-Civil War Period | |
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| First Annual Report, Society for the Prevention of Pauperism in New York City, 1818 | |
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| Constitution and By-Laws, Female Orphan Asylum of Portland, Maine, 1828 | |
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| President Franklin Pierce, Veto Message, Ten-Million Acre Bill, 1854 | |
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| The Civil War and After: 1869-1900 | |
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| Population Changes | |
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| The Welfare of Soldiers and Veterans | |
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| Social Welfare: The Rural South | |
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| Social Welfare: Urban Problems | |
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| The Charity Organization Movement | |
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| The Social Welfare of Women | |
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| A New View of Child Welfare | |
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| The Aging: The Group That Was Left Behind | |
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| The Settlement House Movement | |
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| Documents: The Civil War and After | |
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| State of New York, Act to Provide for the Relief of Indigent Soldiers, Sailors and Marines, and the Families of Deceased Military Personnel, 1887 | |
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| Josephine Shaw Lowell, The Economic and Moral Effects of Public Outdoor Relief, Proceedings, NCCC, 1890 | |
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| An Act to Prohibit the Coming of Chinese Laborers, September 13, 1888 | |
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| An Act, Supplement, October 1, 1888 | |
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| Progress and Reform: 1900-1930 | |
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| Poverty and the Working Class | |
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| Coalitions for Reform | |
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| Social Reform: Working Conditions | |
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| Social Reform: Women, Work, and Suffrage | |
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| Social Reform: Income Security | |
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| Social Reform: Family Welfare | |
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| Social Work and the Black Population | |
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| The End of Reform | |
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| The Social Welfare of Veterans | |
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| The Professionalization of Social Work | |
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| Documents: Progress and Reform | |
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| Florence Kelley, The Family and the Woman''s Wage, Proceedings, NCCC, 1909 | |
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| Funds to Parents Act, Illinois, 1911 | |
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| Frederic Almy et al, Public Pensions to Widows, Proceedings, NCCC, 1912 | |
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| The Depression and the New Deal: 1930-1940 | |
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| The Hoover Response to Crisis | |
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| FDR and the New Deal | |
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| Labor and Social Welfare | |
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| Veterans and the Bonus | |
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| Public Money for Relief | |
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| Federal Emergency Relief Administration | |
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| The Social Security Act | |
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| Social Insurance | |
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| Public Assistance | |
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| Family Life and Social Workers | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Documents: The Depression and the New Deal | |
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| Federal Emergency Relief Administration, Monthly Report, Rules and Regulations, 1933 | |
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| Social Security Act, 1935 | |
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| War and Prosperity: 1940-1970 | |
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| Population Shifts | |
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| Technology, Productivity, and Economic Insecurity | |
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| World War II | |
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| Wartime Economic and Social Advances | |
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| Veterans and the G.I. Bill | |
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| Postwar Optimism | |
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| The Attack on Public Welfare | |
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| Poverty and the Reform of Welfare | |
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| The War on Poverty | |
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| Expanded Benefits for the Aging | |
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| Reform of Welfare: 1967 | |
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| Civil Rights and Juvenile Justice | |
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| Documents: War and Prosperity | |
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| President John F. Kennedy, Message on Public Welfare, 1962 | |
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| Economic Opportunity Act, 1964. U.S | |
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| Supreme Court, In Re Gault, 1967 | |
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| Economic and Social Stagnation: 1970-1990 | |
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| Changing Employment Patterns | |
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| The Changing Family | |
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| Poverty and Income Distribution | |
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| The Battle Over Rights | |
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| Expenditures for Social Welfare | |
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| New Approaches to Income Security | |
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| Women | |
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| Veterans | |
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| Documents: Economic and Social Stagnation | |
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| President Richard M. Nixon, Message on Reform in Welfare, 1969 | |
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| Standard of Review for Terminat | |